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There is no long-running GPK podcast that we know of, but plenty of shows have spent an episode on the cards, the artists or the movie. The Joe Simko interview is the place to start; most of the rest are about the 1987 film.

• Garbage Pail Kids with Joe Simko

  Danny and Jason talk to Joe Simko about painting kids for Topps.

  What About..., February 29, 2024

• An Oral History of Our Favorite Toys: Garbage Pail Kids and Madballs

  Ty and RD on the 1980s gross-out boom, from the cards to Madballs, and the Pulitzer winner behind GPK.

  The X-Mil Man Podcast, September 25, 2021

• 625: Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum

  A review of the modern homebrew NES game built as a lost 1980s GPK cartridge.

  Abject Suffering

• 80s Kids Unite: Garbage Pail Kids

  An episode on the cards, opening the show’s 80s Kids Unite run.

  Two Dollar Late Fee

• Episode 113: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

  Peaches Christ and Michael Varrati on the 1987 film.

  Midnight Mass, July 23, 2025

• The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

  An episode on Rod Amateau’s 1987 film.

  Subversive Cinema, February 18, 2022

• Episode 85: Garbage Pail Kids

  An episode on the 1987 movie.

  Midnight Triple Feature, August 9, 2021

• Garbage Pail Kids

  The hosts imagine the Garbage Pail Kids movie that should have been made.

  Raised by Rentals, March 29, 2026

• Episode 13a: Garbage Pail Kids (Part 1)

  One of the oldest episodes on the list, and the first of two parts on the film.

  Stop the Movie, July 16, 2012

Know a good GPK episode we have missed? Tell us through the contact page. For the film itself, see the movie page.